Tom Ward & Zach Waugh join 37signals

Tom Ward hails from London and has been active in the Rails community since 2005. He was responsible for the SQLServerAdapter back in the day and has a cool 37 commits(!) under his belt for Rails. He’s formerly of Go Free Range, the team behind big parts of the GOV.UK project. We’re very happy to have him here, thanks to the great recommendation of fellow UK employee Pratik, who made the connection.

Tiffany

You have all of these developers however you haven’t released a new product in years.

What the heck do all these developers do?

Kasper Timm Hansen

on 25 Oct 13

@Tiffany hi, I think you’re forgetting last years rewrite of Basecamp and the just launched Know Your Company.

Robert

on 25 Oct 13

Two great hires, nice job.

Best of luck to Tom and Zach.

DHH

on 25 Oct 13

Tiffany, our finest mission is to make the products we’re already getting paid for better. Which includes improving reliability, speed, and other behind-the-scenes upgrades, as well as new features and bug fixes, and expanding platform coverage (mobile web, iOS, Android).

I’d love to see examples of companies with a similar amount of paying customers and millions of users who are able to do more with a programming staff of 11 people. They must surely have figured some productivity secrets out that we can learn from!

Emil

on 26 Oct 13

Exciting. Let’s hope for campfire updates! Maybe we finally can have notifications in the browser for casual users now with another CF lover on the 37 train.

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